RHLSTP Book Club 69 - Richard Armitage
Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast (RHLSTP)
British Comedy Guide
4.7 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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RHLSTP Book Club 69 - Geneva - Richard talks to actor turned novelist, Richard Armitage about his gripping thriller Geneva. How it started its life as an audiobook, why he didn’t want a ghost writer, what made him want to write about big Pharma and Alzheimers, how being a disciplined actor has helped inform his characters, a twist on the unreliable narrator as well as creating a character who can not hide his own inadequacy, whether any of the graphic descriptions of skiing and car accidents is based on experience and why this podcast is too classy to mention Richard’s bottom.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to my podcast. It's me Richard Herring. I'm powered by AKS Plus and also vegetables, |
| 0:06.3 | mainly at the moment, to join AKS Plus if you like. The big news at the moment is that the |
| 0:12.2 | kind of have my ballback ebook on Kindle, definitely, and I think everywhere is 99 Pents for the month |
| 0:17.9 | of November or the month of November if you're supporting that which you should. It'll be lovely |
| 0:23.2 | if everyone who listened to this podcast went and spent 99p on the book because that would mean |
| 0:28.0 | that they'd meant let me make more books and it's not very much to pay is it, but it's a great |
| 0:33.1 | book so I hope you will go and buy it. It's also available in paperback, hardback, and audio |
| 0:37.6 | book put not for 99p and from me it gigs as well, again not for 99p. The tour is going really well. |
| 0:44.7 | Thanks to everyone who's coming, the upcoming dates are the 6th of November at Leicester Square |
| 0:49.6 | Theatre with Joe Wilkinson and Julius Somwala. There are hardly any tickets left by your tickets now |
| 0:54.2 | if you want to go and see that. On the 9th of November I'm in the Northampton Royal Theatre, |
| 0:58.6 | there are lots of tickets left for this one and with Abigail Ia Shemone and John Pointing, who's off |
| 1:03.9 | of bad boys, is it called Good Boys, plebs, things like that. 13th of November, Ross Noble and John |
| 1:11.8 | Ronson at the Leicester Square Theatre, there's a Charlie gig that's sold out but check for waiting lists |
| 1:16.6 | and then notting him on the 23rd of November, sulfur on the 26th. I'll let you know who the extra |
| 1:21.2 | guest is when they've confirmed. Edinburgh on the 2nd December and that's with Ian Rankin, |
| 1:27.7 | coming up next year, names including Armando Unichy, Tommy Tien and go to richtrain.com, |
| 1:32.5 | slash for Hollisterpuff for full details of that. Now let's sit back, relax and enjoy whatever, |
| 1:37.6 | podcast you listen to, thanks so much for listening, do spread the word to your friends. |
| 1:42.4 | Today's episode is sponsored by Tilda Rice. Like me, you've probably had some fun experiences |
| 1:48.4 | trying to cook rice in the past. It seems incredibly complicated for something that's so easy. |
| 1:54.0 | I've had times where it ends up so dry that you take out the spoon and the whole thing comes out |
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